Restriction in some parts of Srinagar
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Geelani cracks the whip, suspends Nayeem Khan
Syed Ali Geelani, the head of a faction of Hurriyat, on Saturday gave a strong signal that he would brook no misconduct by any of the constituents of his faction of Hurriyat when he suspended Nayeem Khan and his party from Hurriyat Conference. The move came after a national news channel aired a sting operation, […]
Er. Rashid drops a bombshell, says he was offered money to protest
Abdul Rashid Sheikh, commonly known as Engineer Rashid, of the Awami Itehaad Party, today dropped a bombshell saying that he was offered huge amount of money to create a ruckus on a range of issues, including demonetization, continuous LoC shelling, the refusal of New Delhi to hold talks with Pakistan, un-abetted human rights violations in Kashmir, […]
Congress feels deep concern ‘over the situation in the valley’
Having all but conceded the political ground to the BJP in New Delhi, senior Congress leaders on Saturday found an issue they feel that can at least make them visible: Kashmir. Its leaders expressed “deep concern” over the situation in Jammu and Kashmir as it held a meeting of its policy planning group on Jammu and […]
J-K board looks to reform its old style examination system
If all goes well, the J&K Board of School Education (BOSE) would completely transform its existing syllabi and scheme of question papers for the 10th and 12th class examinations. The move is aimed at re-structuring of examination system and merging the practical portion of exams with the theory papers by amending the weightage and pattern of […]
After 17 years in prison, a court declares a Kashmiri man innocent
Nearly seventeen years back Gulzar Ahmed Wani, a 28-year-old Phd scholar at Aligarh Muslim University, was taken into police custody by the police in Uttar Pradesh for what the police then called him an operative of Hizbul Mujahideen. Today he walked out of prison as a middle age man when a local court in Uttar […]
New Delhi falls back on its old, trite methods ‘to control Kashmir’
As protest demonstrations have become an almost permanent feature of life in Kashmir during the last nearly one year, New Delhi seems to be going back to its old methods to find what it calls peace. In this regard it has come out with a new modified version for “normalizing” the situation in […]
Justice still eludes in Hawal massacre
It has been twenty seven years since more than fifty people were shot in a massacre that came to be called the Hawal Massacre and justice still is nowhere to be seen. Valley’s well know human right activist Mohammad Ahsan Mantoo told Kashmir Vision over phone that he will continue to fight for victims of Hawal […]
ICJ can’t nullify Jadhav’s death sentence: Aziz
Pakistan’s top foreign policy advisor Sartaj Aziz on Saturday said that the International Court of Justice cannot nullify alleged Indian spy Kulbhushan Jadhavs death sentence. “Jadhav had confessed to carrying out terrorist activities inside Pakistan and was a naval officer using a fake passport. He was sentenced according to the country’s law,” Aziz said while addressing […]
Will control Kashmir situation: Amit Shah
BJP President Amit Shah said on Saturday that his party will win the next general election in the country in 2019 by a much bigger margin than the majority achieved in the 2014 elections. Addressing media here during a ‘Meet-the-Press’ programme of the Chandigarh Press Club, he said that the people of the country were overwhelmingly […]